Chris Dixon recently wrote a post about the decline of the mobile web and the shift to apps and how that is hurting innovation. Fred expanded on that theme in his post on the mobile downturn. So it is worth thinking about what we need to get to a model of permissionless innovation in mobile. Here are some changes that might make sense * An unencumbered open source mobile operating system (Android is not that due to the control exercised by Google) * Ability to side load apps / have competing ...

Chris Dixon recently wrote a post about the decline of the mobile web and the shift to apps and how that is hurting innovation. Fred expanded on that theme in his post on the mobile downturn. So it is worth thinking about what we need to get to a model of permissionless innovation in mobile. Here are some changes that might make sense * An unencumbered open source mobile operating system (Android is not that due to the control exercised by Google) * Ability to side load apps / have competing ...